With iPad, we can edit e-mail, browse the web, create documents or spreadsheets or presentation, browser photos or movies quite handy. With millions of applications on App Store, iPad can even be more useful than PC.

Isn't it more useful if we can develop web or other applications on iPad?

So, here comes PaizaCloud Cloud IDE.
PaizaCloud is a browser-based web development environment in the Cloud.
With PaizaCloud, we can develop web applications or other applications on iPad!

PaizaCloud supports iPad, and have browser-based editor, terminal, browser-in-browser, file manager for building applications.
PaizaCloud has development environments like Ruby on Rails, Django, Node.js, Laravel, PHP, Java(tomcat), MySQL, Jupyter Notebook... You don't need to struggle with annoying installing and setting up development environment.

As you can use the same environment from any devices, you can develop on PC today, and continue development on a cafe using iPad tomorrow.

In this article, we actually build a BBS application on iPad using PaizaCloud and Ruby on Rails. We can build the application just in 10 seconds just following the instruction.

The '[application name]' is the name of the application you are creating. You can choose whatever you want, like "music-app" or "game-app".
Here, I'll choose the application name "myapp", where I can manage the list of posts.

Also, let's add "--database=mysql" to use MySQL database.

So, lets type:

$ rails new myapp --database=mysql

In the file finder view at the left side of the page, you'll see the "myapp" directory. Tap the folder to open it to see inside the directory.

You'll see a bunch of files for the Ruby on Rails application.

You'll already have a MySQL server running because you checked it on the server setting. But if not, you can always manually start like:

Although we used PaizaCloud on floating window mode, you can switch to tab windows mode for full-screen editing by tapping window bar's maximize button, or by tapping blue button with PaizaCloud button to open a menu and choose "Tab Window Mode".

Summary

With PaizaCloud Cloud IDE, we created a Ruby on Rails application on iPad.
Now, let's create your own Ruby on Rails application!

With「PaizaCloud Cloud IDE」, you can flexibly and easily develop your web application or server application, and publish it, just in your browser.